“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The army had little attraction for him, but it afforded him the possibility of taking a great step toward his goal. After all, if… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“This time I felt it was impossible that they could entertain further doubt as to my true condition. Alas, I did not yet know… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“... the heritage of mankind is not the earth but the entire universe,” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“But how could one hold this against her when faced with the perfection of her body? Suddenly” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
